This past January, I began doing a radio show on xray.fm/KXRY 107.1 in Portland, Oregon. So, now I can add “Radio DJ” to my long list of volunteer jobs! The show focuses largely on local music, upcoming local shows, and whatever other weird stuff I decide to put on the airwaves.

You can stream it live on Friday afternoons from 2-3pm pacific time, or stream the most recent two weeks of shows anytime, by visiting xray.fm/shows/alive-with-pleasure.

The lovely people at the sound camp Tectonic asked me to play a set during one of their live music nights at Burning Man this year. Here are a few songs from that set, performed during a rather impressive windstorm. It would have made a great tour diary entry, if only I were still writing those. Enjoy!

Here is my first attempt at creating a music video! The song is “Pack Up Your Longings” from my brand new (as of March 2014) album, Ascension Parish. I used a single, continuous shot from the window of a city bus in Portland on Day 1 of “Snowmaggedon 2014″. Let me know what you think.

Another year, another new-and-improved rossbeach.com. I’m finally leaving behind the laboriously constructed 1990s-era HTML that I coded from scratch in favor of this newfangled WordPress gizmo. I’ll keep the old site online as a reminder of simpler times on the internet. In the meantime, enjoy the modernity!

Welcome to the online home of Ross Beach, a songwriter, producer, audio engineer, radio DJ, and software developer living in Portland, Oregon. He's a co-founder and former President of the 501(c)(3) non-profit group PDX Pop Now! In his home state of Louisiana, he collaborated with the group of musicians known as the Elephant 6 collective, including stints with The Gerbils and Neutral Milk Hotel. He has written and recorded seventeen albums of music.